The Physical QWERTY Lives! Motorola Developing New Slider For Sprint?

After Motorola release the DROID 4 at the beginning of the year, we were beginning to wonder if it would turn out to be one of the last Android phones on the planet to sport a physical keyboard. The answer to that is apparently, “No.” According to a family member of a Sprint device tester, the phone you are seeing above is real, works, and could become a reality. He was unable to provide any other details, but we can gather some things from this shot.

First of all, I’d put that screen at around 4 inches or so. You can see Ice Cream Sandwich in all its blue glory, along with a touch of MotoBlur. Those are definitely on-screen navigation keys, something that Motorola seems willing to push going forward with its next batch of phones. That’s a 5-row keyboard, similar to the one seen on the DROID 4. The design itself is a much more rounded D4, which we like. Other than that, we’d simply ask, “What do you think?”